Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-04
KANSAS MAIL SERVICE.

A morning paper is dependent for its
success, and very largely, on the prompt
ness of the mail service The wheels of
government are yet guaged to the gait Of
the stage coach, and her department off
Gals are the creatures Of red tape and pre-
cedent rather than of common sense. 1t is
impossible for them to understand or COM
.prehend that town in the west may with
in single year double its population, there
fore be entitled to have its dublic service
doubled Every two years the postoiEce
makes an adjustment of salaries and SER
vice, when the chances are that within two
or three months the Kansas postoiilce has
grown away beyond the demand made at
the time of the adjustment, so for months
and wears the service must be run under a
sweat and strain SO it is with the mall
service of districts and Of lines in western
districts and western states. Kansas today is
not half supplied with mail service. The
towns along four-fifths of the mail routes
in Kansas doublein population every year,
mail service is doubled about once IN i've
or ten years. The mail service Of Kansas
is today simply an outrage. The EAGLE
is forced TO rely very largely upon the eX-
press companies to reach It's patrons. The
present administra ION and its conservative
t)dies and mossback adherents are sending
up one continued and prolonged wall over
the uneXpended surplus in the treasury.
They talk about throwing away hundreds
of millions on a new navy which would
only be anchored and left to rot, they eX-
pend millions upon useless Standing army,
most Of which goes TO high-salared,
shoulder-strap loafers, neither of which
services return ore cent of revenue and
neither of which in any way touch the
wants or in any manner serve the great
masses of the people Bat when it comes
to the postal service in which every man,
women and child is interested, the fool no
ton is at once intcriected that tie postal
service should be self supporting, so they
cut and trim and scrimp and gouge to get
the service down to within an approprIa-
ton which had been cooked down by the
dominant party to starving estimates simply
for political effect Out upon such an out
rage It is said that the present admins
tration are contemplating coach and hack
service along several Of the new lines III
Kansas. because the postmaster general
says that such hack and stage service
come cheaper We have this from IN IN
disputed authority. In The language Of
the now saintcd and immortal Grim Chief
tain, Great G0dr Who own this country
and who constitutes the goyernment-thc
people or a lot Of Cheap john servants?
The following from the Atchison Daily
Champion is to the point. Let every paper
in Kansas fake mp the refrain aud keep it
up ill better service is afforded.
The champion yesterday morning, under
the head Of More about tie Mails" gave
an account Of the annoying ''pogching"
system As ii prevails here, Il system where
letters mailed in the -aGtcrnoou in Atclisod
are thrown into baggage cars without a
route agent. This is an evil which aiilicts
Lcavenworth and st. Joseph as much rs it
does AtcLison. and should be remcdicd. \
government with surplus in It's treasury
is able to furnish ample mail facilities
to the people. There is no need of
any gimet-eyed par,mony in the matter
of mail cars or route agents. The maii |
service in this part of the country is insult |
ficient and unsatisfactory, and as far as
the ChampiDn i concerned il DroneSps 10 |
keep up its protest until n remedy is found. |
1t is not personal or political matter.
The Champion docs not care who is post |
master or who is route agent; ii only cares |
for the convenience of the public. The /
newspapers Of Kansas, without regard to |
party, should join with the Champion III |
demanding more ears, more agents and a
general reform.